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AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 12:04:12 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. Mets-Willets Point (7) station, via Grand Central Parkway.Should have been Astoria Blvd, (N) (Q) station. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 12:39:39 2015, in response to AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 12:04:12 2015. Which one is shorter in miles? They also need to consider travel time to Manhattan. Wouldn't the trip from the Q N be shorter? |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 20 12:45:12 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 12:39:39 2015. Likely, but the other question is will the design allow extension to Jamaica Center so one can get from one airport to the other easily. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 20 12:47:04 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 12:39:39 2015. question 2 So there is available capacity on the 7 for airport bound riders? |
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Posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 12:51:12 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 20 12:47:04 2015. sure...
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Jan 20 13:00:59 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 20 12:47:04 2015. Sure, during off-peak times. |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by Allan on Tue Jan 20 14:05:30 2015, in response to AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 12:04:12 2015. "Should have been Astoria Blvd, (N) (Q) station."That, of course, would be the most logical solution but the NIMBYs would get in the way. Willets Point area by CitField is a commercial zone (at the moment). IMHO, Willets Point would take people too far out of their way. They would have to go all the way east to get the AirTrain which would take them back west to the Airport. I honestly can't see much use for that routing from a passenger standpoint. |
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Posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:14:58 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. I had this same idea over a year ago, just never told anyone.I was tying it in with the idea of clearing out Flushing by building a bus terminal beneath the airtrain station. |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Tue Jan 20 14:26:16 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 12:39:39 2015. No doubt they should go back to the idea of extending the Astoria line.But NIMBYs would oppose that. And for reasons I don't understand and can't explain, I think they'd oppose another damned Air Train less.. |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Tue Jan 20 14:28:45 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Allan on Tue Jan 20 14:05:30 2015. Rebuild part of the LIRR Whitestone Line...have it diverge from the PW more or less where the original did...then have it follow the Van Wyck and Grand Central to LGA...One seat access from Midtown and all that... |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 20 14:33:49 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. Ugh. Could've done without the video of Prince Andrew speaking. Aside from his annoying timbre, anything he says is automatically disbelieved. |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:35:13 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 12:39:39 2015. Willets point is slightly shorter. The distance between Willets Point and the western end of the terminal B is the same as Astoria to that same point at the western end of Terminal B without serving the rest of the airport.There would be no need to navigate around the approach path to runway 4. Willets point has excess passenger capacity since about 7 to 8 out of 10 people who use that station in a year are there for Mets games or the US open. that's less than 90 days out of 365 the station sees major use. Form the ridership numbers I mentioned in the "least used station" thread: Astoria Blvd is #121 (3.9 million). Ditmars is #81 (5.4 million). Willets Point is #246 (1.9 Million). So Willets point is closer, has more space, and is an express stop on a line with at least some express service. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Jan 20 15:12:47 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. Nice idea. Would probably be a boon to the city and would be very useful.Hence, it will never be built. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jan 20 15:21:13 2015, in response to AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 12:04:12 2015. Problem with Astoria is the terminal can get very very congested during rush hour. An express to Willets Point is going to be about the same time.And for other reasons, the 7 line is better. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 15:25:41 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. "Mr. Cuomo said there wouldn’t be any “siting issues” with the AirTrain because Willets Point is “basically an industrial area.” "Where has he been? |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 15:27:12 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Allan on Tue Jan 20 14:05:30 2015. The backtracking isn't that much. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 15:27:43 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:14:58 2015. "just never told anyone."The Silence indeed. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 15:28:11 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 20 14:33:49 2015. For once I agree with you. |
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Posted by northshore on Tue Jan 20 15:53:44 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. I agree with an AirTrain from the 7 train & LIRR. But I think Woodside would be better. Less of a ride from Manhattan. more LIRR trains. The AirTrain ROW could be LIRR, BQE, Grand Central Pkwy. |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by r33/r36 mainline on Tue Jan 20 15:53:51 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 20 12:47:04 2015. 7 line is getting CBTC so it shouldn't be a issue IMO. |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by r33/r36 mainline on Tue Jan 20 16:07:01 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Allan on Tue Jan 20 14:05:30 2015. 7 line is getting CBTC, who knows when they would have that on the Broadway line?7 line will be 100 percent NTT, CBTC, ATO, not to mention Met Games, U.S Open, etc, from a PR prospective, the 7 line >>>>> Astoria. Also notice how the Gov mentioned in the video it will also connect to the LIRR, they probably would restore Half hour headways on the PW Branch when this Airtrain service would start running, notice how well used NJT is between NYP and EWR... Fix up the current Willis Point LIRR station, have trains stop there at all times and that's your quick option to Manhattan. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 20 16:10:43 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:35:13 2015. Express service may actually work in the astoria line if they had an airport line attached to it. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 20 17:20:48 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. Connecting service to the airport using the #7 as a connection would be a big mistake. Using the Astoria line would be better for one simple reason is that B division cars are bigger, hence someone comming in from, say Havana with a luggage cart full of stuff would have more room to maneuver & lesser chance of an ugly confrontation (cart into knees..etc). Besides, the Flushing line is almost running at capacity as it is. The Astoria line could absorb the extra riders w/their luggage much easier. That unused middle track atop 31st street would come in handy.The NIMBYS can be overcome. Regarding the JFK Airtrain, They screamed like hell when the "Van Wyck El" as they called it was going up & last time I checked, its still running |
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Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years) |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:25:21 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by MainR3664 on Tue Jan 20 14:26:16 2015. I thought they opposed an extension from Ditmars. Don't think they ever weighed in on an extension over the GCP . |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Tue Jan 20 17:25:27 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:14:58 2015. Interesting idea. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:26:44 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:35:13 2015. Why are you looking at Ditmars? The extension should be from Astoria Blvd. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:29:42 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jan 20 15:21:13 2015. No one is suggesting extending it from the terminal. It shoud be extended from right before the Astoria Blvd station. |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Tue Jan 20 17:31:00 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by northshore on Tue Jan 20 15:53:44 2015. Yeah. An Airtrain connection should be faster from Manhattan than the subway/LIRR to the Q70. |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Tue Jan 20 17:31:18 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 20 17:20:48 2015. The JFK Airtrain is pretty quiet. The worst part was construction. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:32:43 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by N6 Limited on Tue Jan 20 17:31:18 2015. And why coudn't this be just as quiet? |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:33:37 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jan 20 14:33:49 2015. The only time his timbre wasn't annoying was at the funeral of the policemen. |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Tue Jan 20 17:46:18 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:32:43 2015. It probably will be, the issue would be the people that will be living near the proposed construction opposing it as much as they can. |
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Posted by The silence on Tue Jan 20 17:59:10 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:26:44 2015. Read.It does you good. I said from "Astoria". The only place I mention Ditmars is when I mentioned in passing how those two stations, Ditmars Blvd and Astoria blvd, are both much busier stations already than Willets Point. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jan 20 18:08:11 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:14:58 2015. I was tying it in with the idea of clearing out Flushing by building a bus terminal beneath the airtrain station.The problem with that idea is that most of the bus lines go east of Main St. You are adding at least 1 mile to every trip. Moreover, there are only 2 roads that connect Main St to the Willets Point: Northern Blv and Roosevelt Ave. Both run through downtown Flushing and both are operating near capacity during rush hours. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jan 20 18:09:32 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:26:44 2015. The extension should be from Astoria BlvdHow will you get around Amtrak's Hell Gate Bridge approach? |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 18:18:32 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 20 16:10:43 2015. Yes, it would. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 18:20:00 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jan 20 17:25:21 2015. No, but that has significant engineering issues to get past the Amtrak (Connecting RR) structure over Astoria Blvd. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 18:20:52 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jan 20 18:09:32 2015. Big issue. |
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Posted by Jon Bell on Tue Jan 20 18:28:40 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 20 12:45:12 2015. Looks like it's about as far from Willets Point to Jamaica as from Jamaica to JFK. Would it give enough bang for the buck to provide inter-airport connectivity and better access to LGA from Long Island? |
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Posted by Joe V on Tue Jan 20 18:51:53 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 20 17:20:48 2015. There are several reasons he is choosing this:- NIMBY avoidance, and he basically said as much - Not an MTA project nor route extension, who he does not trust to ever get anything done - Does not blend this money with MTA's capital budget |
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Posted by Joe V on Tue Jan 20 18:59:20 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by northshore on Tue Jan 20 15:53:44 2015. Does this mean they have to do a whole ADA job to that LIRR station ?I suppose it becomes a regular stop for most Port Wash trains. LIRR will be that much more opposed to another stop at Elmhurst. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Jan 20 19:42:27 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 20 17:20:48 2015. hence someone comming in from, say HavanaLaGuardia has international flights? :-) FWIW, the era of paying for checked baggage has to a certain extent cut down on people carrying multiple large suitcases, and most of those people tend to use car services, taxis, and kiss & fly. Using the Astoria line would be better for one simple reason is that B division cars are bigger That's why London Underground sent Tube stock to Heathrow Airport... :-) |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jan 20 19:47:47 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 20 17:20:48 2015. Willets Point Blvd also has a railroad station, though. That's an advantage. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Jan 20 19:49:45 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by northshore on Tue Jan 20 15:53:44 2015. But I think Woodside would be better.Woodside is probably the most logical location, but it suffers from the fact that you'd have some degree of siting issues of where one would out the station (yay for land land speculators), and the fact that your easy elevated stretch out of the station is currently occupied by the Flushing Railway. OTOH, Willets Point, as others have pointed out, is basically now auto repair shops and other industrial concerns that are being zoned out of the area. It's going to be easier, but it's going to be awkward given the need to backtrack for riders coming from Manhattan or the multiple transfers for many others including LIRR riders. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 19:52:09 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Jan 20 19:49:45 2015. "multiple transfers for many others including LIRR riders. "Maybe this will incent LIRR to build a wye so trains from Jamaica can turn into the Port Wash branch. That would also help with Mets/US Open traffic. |
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Posted by Joe V on Tue Jan 20 20:01:11 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 19:52:09 2015. Very sharp turnProbably some structures in the way Flushing to Jamaica means at grade rail crossings - never will happen |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Jan 20 20:16:33 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 14:35:13 2015. Willets Pt also has the LIRR station. |
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Posted by The Silence on Tue Jan 20 20:41:40 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jan 20 18:08:11 2015. Reasoning (aside from airtrain connection)proximity to Stengel depot. cuts down deadheading. connection to Citi Field, the Tennis Center and the rest of the park. A 42,000 baseball stadium and a 23,000 seat tennis stadium both sharing a bus stop with only one bus route. Fewer buses laying over on the streets around Roosevelt and Main, which I figure to be the cause of the congestion in that area. The terminal would include employee relief facilities instead of them peeing on a church fence. You would not need to spend so much time, if any at all, on streets packed with Chinese people trying to shove fliers into your hands (which are all in Chinese) while you wander around looking for the right bus stop. Main street would no longer be the number 11 stop in ridership if some of the load got off early. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Tue Jan 20 20:48:40 2015, in response to Re: AirTrain Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport ($450 Million, 5 years), posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 18:20:00 2015. You can't go over, around, or under that structure, unless you tunnel under the Grand Central Pkwy/Triboro Bridge Approach. My 2 cents worth: Tie into the IND express tracks to/from Queens Plaza at Northern Blvd, west of Broadway. Run the tunnel under Northern Blvd,, up 68th Street, under the BQE, under the park between St Michael's Cemetery/BQE eastern spur, Grand Central Pkwy, to LaGuardia Apt Central Terminal. |
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